From 3824657c522f19f85a76bd932821174a5557a382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Krause Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:30:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages The following statement of ABI/testing/dev-kmsg is not quite right: It is not possible to inject messages from userspace with the facility number LOG_KERN (0), to make sure that the origin of the messages can always be reliably determined. Userland actually can inject messages with a facility of 0 by abusing the fact that the facility is stored in a u8 data type. By using a facility which is a multiple of 256 the assignment of msg->facility in log_store() implicitly truncates it to 0, i.e. LOG_KERN, allowing users of /dev/kmsg to spoof kernel messages as shown below: The following call... # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0 >/dev/kmsg ...leads to the following log entry (dmesg -x | tail -n 1): user :emerg : [ 66.137758] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty However, this call... # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0x800 >/dev/kmsg ...leads to the slightly different log entry (note the kernel facility): kern :emerg : [ 74.177343] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty Fix that by limiting the user provided facility to 8 bit right from the beginning and catch the truncation early. Fixes: 7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length...") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index b16f35487b67..2ce8826f1053 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ static u32 clear_idx; #define PREFIX_MAX 32 #define LOG_LINE_MAX (1024 - PREFIX_MAX) +#define LOG_LEVEL(v) ((v) & 0x07) +#define LOG_FACILITY(v) ((v) >> 3 & 0xff) + /* record buffer */ #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) #define LOG_ALIGN 4 @@ -612,7 +615,6 @@ struct devkmsg_user { static ssize_t devkmsg_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) { char *buf, *line; - int i; int level = default_message_loglevel; int facility = 1; /* LOG_USER */ size_t len = iov_iter_count(from); @@ -642,12 +644,13 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) line = buf; if (line[0] == '<') { char *endp = NULL; + unsigned int u; - i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10); + u = simple_strtoul(line + 1, &endp, 10); if (endp && endp[0] == '>') { - level = i & 7; - if (i >> 3) - facility = i >> 3; + level = LOG_LEVEL(u); + if (LOG_FACILITY(u) != 0) + facility = LOG_FACILITY(u); endp++; len -= endp - line; line = endp; -- 2.20.1